Reel Time Gaming

[Yair Nixon]

RealTime Gaming (RTG) is an online casino company developing download-based casino software, licensed by various operators running their own branded RTG-powered casino sites. The company was established in Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, but moved all development to Heredia, Costa Rica in 2007-2008.[citation needed]

The player was accused of cheating by the casino, who said he used a robot (automated playing program), and that he would not be paid.[1] Since the game has a casino advantage (albeit a low advantage, somewhere over 0.1%[2]), the casino should still have held the edge, though good luck can overcome an edge in the short and medium-term. The details of the player's final settlement with the casino were never published. RTG subsequently limited the maximum bet size of the game to $5, before removing it entirely.[citation needed]

One of the largest RTG casino operators was the Crystal Palace group, mooted for a 140m flotation on London's AIM market in 2005.[3] The group, owned by South African Warren Cloud, made a pre-tax profit that year of 20.4m. Cloud's casinos were the subject of numerous complaints particularly over payment of players who accepted bonuses from the casino. Cloud died suddenly on his yacht off Ibiza in July 2008, aged 34.[4]

Aside from the Crystal Palace group, other RTG casinos have been the subject of criticism. The Casinomeister website maintains a list of RTG casinos, which lists several sites as 'rogue'.[5] Ozwin Casino, an Australian RTG casino, isn't on the Casinomeister list, but it is one of four Australian gambling sites that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) asked to be blocked earlier this year for violating the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.[6] Despite attempts to block it, the Australian gambling media reported a significant win paid out by Ozwin Casino in September to an Australian player who won a jackpot of 65,500 UAD on the RTG game Diamond Fiesta.[7]

The company indicates that operators are not able to choose between payout settings for their slots[8] and video poker games.[9] They have expressed intentions to limit operator liability for a single game to $50,000 by default, by reducing maximum bet sizes.[10]

Some RTG casinos offer progressive jackpot games with jackpots that are pooled between all the different casinos that offer these games. The largest of these jackpots are usually Jackpot Piatas and Aztec's Millions. Compared to similarly-sized multi-million dollar jackpots offered by competing game developers such as Microgaming or Playtech, these jackpots are rarely won and their slow rate of increase suggests that they are not particularly popular. In addition the non-progressive RTG "Real Series" slot machines may be configured with tiered random progressive jackpots that are local to a specific casino, or a group of casinos that are run by the same operator. These local jackpots can be won randomly and independently of the alignment of symbols on the game reels on any spin. Operators are able to configure the jackpots on a per-game basis or group several games together in order to contribute to a shared local jackpot.

Reel Time Gaming Enterprises PTY Limited is a Queensland, Australia based casino game developer founded in 2009. The company claims over 100 slots titles including many that the creators developed for other companies such as Merkur. The company, headed up by CEO, Martin Visocnik is responsible for many popular games including Eye of Horus. Visocnik developed Book of Ra while working as a slot developer and game designer for Novomatic.

We first see the company come into the public eye with a content deal the company made with GameAccount Network (GAN) in the summer of 2013. This deal saw Reel Time recreating several of their land-based games for online deployment. It allowed the company to expand its commercial footprint without the distraction or expense of creating their own remote game server and opened doors already serviced by GAN. The GameAccount Network had access to regulated markets such as the UK and Italy, Spain and the regulated online gambling American state of New Jersey. Reel Time is licensed by the UKGC.

Markets and operators that were potentially opened up by the GAN deal included SNAI, Sisal, Lottomatica, Intralot Italia, William Hill, Sportingbet, PaddyPower, Boylesports, Rank Group and Gala Coral Group.

While Blueprint Gaming, which is controlled by the Gauselmann Group started in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and a provider by a similar name, Realtime Gaming also started in Atlanta, Georgia and develops most of their slots in Australia (Aussie Slots) these two companies should not be confused with each other.

In 2017, the Gauselmann Group, which also owns Merkur Gaming, made the decision to de-license any online casinos that were offering their games to the German market, as online gambling is thought by some to be illegal in the country. You can read all of the details here.

While Merkur is controlled by the Gauselmann Group, Reel Time Gaming is an independent developer and can still offer some of their games to German players. Titles such as Eye of Horus, Fishin Frenzy, Wishing Well, and El Torero are available at some online casinos such as Lapalingo as of late December 2017.

We can't be sure how many of the company's games are only deployed through their machines and which of those are online. Their Game Ring packages for land cabinets operate a lot like Novomatic's Gaminator series with multiple games available on a single machine.

Wishing Well is a dark and foreboding 5 reel, 3 position slot with a three scatter trigger that fires off free games. During free spins, the special symbol expands to fill entire reels and acts as an extra wild. The high paying symbol can cover all 15 reel positions paying 2000 coins per line.

Eye of Horus is another 10 pay line game with massive payout potential. Landing scatters opens the doors to the pyramids and grants free games with expanding wild symbols. The game presents with simple graphics and generic sound effects giving it a land-based casino game feel and experience.

Fishing Frenzy is a comical nautical themed slot with free awards whenever the fisherman symbol appears during free games. Again, 5 reels, and 10 lines, the game features a colorful assortment of reel symbols and up to 20 free spins per trigger.

It's always great to find the name behind some of the most popular slots of all time like Reel Time Gaming's Martin Visocnik as the developer of Novomatic's Book of Ra. We find similar gems in reading about CORE Gaming, Lightning Box, and several other "boutique" developers. It's also great they were able to retrieve the use of their games so that die-hard fans, especially in Germany, are not deprived.

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Since 2009, Reel Time Gaming has been a considerable force in the e-gaming market, racking up a slot machine library with more than 100 titles. Those games are all designed to a high standard, using detailed illustrations to draw out a wide variety of different themes for players to enjoy. What's more, the slots have been distributed to a number of casinos via the company's own gaming cabinet system, meaning that punters can get a truly hands on spinning experience.

Reel Time Gaming joins NextGen and Eyecon as one of the e-gaming world's top Australian game studios. The company, which is headquartered in Queensland is far from being the biggest outfit in the world since it remains a privately owned company which employs no more than 50 members of staff. However, the firm does assure us that this close-knit team consists of some very talented personnel with a range of expertise, from software development and mathematics to game design and testing. Overall, the team boasts members who have more than 20 years worth of experience working in the gambling industry.

This software company started out as a developer of land-based gaming cabinets, offering its slot machines to players within the brick and mortar playing sphere. The cabinets manufactured by Reel Time Gaming support an array of nifty technology specs, from dual 22 inch wide screens with a touchscreen playing pad, HD graphics and audio and user-friendly control panel. On top of that, these game machines are programmed to work in multiple markets around the world with a variety of different languages supported.

Offering such a solid product to the land-based betting sector is all good and well. But the modern gambling world is moving more and more towards the internet, with a huge flurry of online casinos opening up every year. Luckily, Reel Time Gaming appears to be keen to keep up with the times, having struck a business deal in 2013 with GameAccount Network to transfer the slot machines into the online market.

If you haven't heard of GameAccount Network, then you should know that the company is one of the leading distributors of online slot machines to the European market with casino partners such as William Hill, PaddyPower and Gala Coral Group. As such, GAN have everything that is necessary to distribute Reel Time Gaming's slot machines into internet gaming markets in Spain, the UK, and Italy.

When it comes down to the spinning action, Reel Time Gaming can certainly hold its own when compared to other small-scale slot machine developers. In fact, the company lays out a decent spread of its repertoire on its own website, offering interested spinners the chance to find out detailed information and watch videos of more than 20 games in action.

The vast majority of the slots on show fall under the 5-reel video slot bracket, allowing punters the chance to play some exciting themes with adventurous graphics and bonus features. Take Trophy Tycoon as an example, a 5 reel slot machine which implores players to live in the fast lane with its high-octane vintage racing theme. Plus, the game also offers some spectacular entertainment thanks to some free spins, not to mention a bit of 3D animation. And if you're not into cars but still fancy something with a bit of va-va-voom, there is Wild Mustang, featuring a magnificent black stallion in an epic Wild West setting.

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